Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the
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Speaker 1: Tech Texans. It have to make life easier new technology,
Speaker 1: and Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
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Speaker 3: Here we go. I have to start this episode of
Speaker 3: the High Tech Texan show with a question, and it's
Speaker 3: it's it's a serious question. And I usually jump on
Speaker 3: the bandwagon when it comes to fun things and cool things,
Speaker 3: whether I want to, whether I'm researching it, whether my
Speaker 3: kids tell me to. But here's the question. Am I
Speaker 3: the only person who has yet to create one of
Speaker 3: those chat GPT action figure dolls of myself? Because I
Speaker 3: really think I am. If I open up my social
Speaker 3: media one more time and I see some action figure
Speaker 3: the picture of this person in shorts or and they're
Speaker 3: all squatty bodied and they're holding some crazy stuff, It's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we get it. It's cute. I haven't done it because
Speaker 3: Number one, I really don't want to. In number two,
Speaker 3: I just don't know what information is still going to
Speaker 3: be potentially taken from me. I don't know. Maybe that's
Speaker 3: why I still have a downloaded TikTok. I don't know.
Speaker 3: So if I am the only person who's in information
Speaker 3: on the Internet is not hacked, that may be why.
Speaker 3: But congratulations to all you people who just think it's
Speaker 3: funny of making an action figure dull of yourself all
Speaker 3: you want to be. Barbie's out there. My goodness that
Speaker 3: it's a fad. By the time when we do the
Speaker 3: show next week, it'll be forgotten and come tune or something.
Speaker 3: There'll be something else out there. But it's people. Just
Speaker 3: there's other things. There's a lot of other things to
Speaker 3: worry about in life, which is what I talk about
Speaker 3: here for two hours on the very long running High
Speaker 3: Tech Texan show. Michael is the name. There are a
Speaker 3: lot of Michael's in radio, but I am the original
Speaker 3: Michael Tom, the original Michael. Call me Tom, and actually
Speaker 3: you can call me GARF GRF for four letters of
Speaker 3: my last name, which is Garfield. In an interactive radio show,
Speaker 3: should callum, pick up the phone and put some collars through.
Speaker 3: I am here for you at three four six, twenty
Speaker 3: nine Texan Interactive. Also because shockingly, I do have social media,
Speaker 3: which you can find me at my hand most everything
Speaker 3: except TikTok really at high Tech Text and you spell
Speaker 3: the whole thing out. If you're too shy to call,
Speaker 3: that's fine. I'm not gonna bite. I'm the nice guy.
Speaker 3: But I will answer your questions and you can hop
Speaker 3: in on some of the interesting and crazy thoughts that
Speaker 3: I have. I am going to ask give me a
Speaker 3: few minutes because I need some suggestions from my big
Speaker 3: listening audience at High Tech Text and spell the whole
Speaker 3: thing out. But for my listening audience not only in
Speaker 3: Houston on KPRC nine fifty am, San Antonio, how are you,
Speaker 3: my dear listeners, News Radio twelve hundred wai' spen a
Speaker 3: few days in San Antonio at the Final four not
Speaker 3: long ago, and then up in Dallas, my hometown where
Speaker 3: my parents may be listening right now on Talk Radio
Speaker 3: eleven ninety. Also, you can listen to me on the
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. We do thank you for downloading that. That
Speaker 3: app was not around when I started this show twenty four,
Speaker 3: twenty three, twenty four years ago. No, it was just
Speaker 3: it was just radio people. Now we're finding a lot
Speaker 3: of people who are listening to the repeat of my show,
Speaker 3: which is called the Podcast. You can listen plausibly live
Speaker 3: on iHeartRadio dot Com download the iHeartRadio app. The only
Speaker 3: one of the only places that I believe you cannot
Speaker 3: hear iHeartRadio in the world, because I like to say
Speaker 3: this is a worldwide radio show. And for as long
Speaker 3: as I've been saying that, I've been saying that there's
Speaker 3: one country who I believe does not allow iHeartRadio into
Speaker 3: its borders because it blocks a lot of things breaking news.
Speaker 3: For the first time in my life, when I hang
Speaker 3: up this microphone this weekend, I am traveling there. I
Speaker 3: will report back to see if iHeartRadio is allowed in
Speaker 3: the country of China. Boom uh oh yep, Big Daddy
Speaker 3: garf rowing to China. Is this a good time to
Speaker 3: go to China? And that's a serious question, because what's
Speaker 3: going on with our government. I don't think China, I
Speaker 3: don't think a lot of countries are all too too
Speaker 3: happy with our government. I'm actually worried that I may
Speaker 3: be I may be tariffed when I come back to
Speaker 3: the United States that I can't even afford it. I
Speaker 3: am going on a fact finding journalist business mission trip
Speaker 3: six days in China, will be gone all next week,
Speaker 3: and I need I'd like your advice three four six
Speaker 3: twenty nine text in as matter of fact, if you
Speaker 3: just want to go on the x Twitter, go on What'sapp,
Speaker 3: well you can find me What's app. Go on my
Speaker 3: Facebook and let me know what to do in China.
Speaker 3: Any tips that I should know. But you better hurry
Speaker 3: up because from what I underst man, I may not
Speaker 3: even be able to communicate once I cross the border
Speaker 3: into China. I have been told. And we'll talk about
Speaker 3: this here too after the break. I need to get
Speaker 3: a VPN, I need to get an e SIM card
Speaker 3: or another SIM card. I potentially need to get a
Speaker 3: burner phone. What is it, man? I mean? The funny
Speaker 3: thing is a lot of the products that I'm taking
Speaker 3: over there, phones, sim cards, laptops, tablets, they're freaking made
Speaker 3: in China, and I think they're incredibly cheap. I'm excited,
Speaker 3: I am a bit nervous. I'm not I have traveled
Speaker 3: the world. I love traveling, Don't get me wrong. Listen,
Speaker 3: if you're a long time listening. I have done this
Speaker 3: radio show from the beaches of Mexico. We have done
Speaker 3: it Hobbo. We have done it from can Whom. We've
Speaker 3: done it from play Adela Carmen. We've done we worked
Speaker 3: with that diet a number of different resorts. I have
Speaker 3: been where else we've done the show from. I've been
Speaker 3: to Iceland. Did I just do the show from Iceland.
Speaker 3: I've been to Amsterdam. I know I've done it from London.
Speaker 3: That was probably the coolest.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I actually did the show on the what's called the
Speaker 3: London Well, it's it's called the London Eye, you know,
Speaker 3: the big Ferris wheel, Merry go Round Observation Dak whatever
Speaker 3: it is. I actually did go around and round and
Speaker 3: I did my show from there years ago. Was at
Speaker 3: two thousand and seven or two thousand and eight. That
Speaker 3: was cool. I have been to Israel. I have been
Speaker 3: to a number of different places. Dubai first time I'm
Speaker 3: actually ever going to China. I did go to South
Speaker 3: Korea two years ago. I met with the Samsung folks,
Speaker 3: got to see their factory too. A lot of technology
Speaker 3: is based uh in comes out of China, whether you
Speaker 3: like it or not, want it or not, but I
Speaker 3: am going to be doing some I met him. I
Speaker 3: may do try to record my radio show from from
Speaker 3: and see if they'll let me transmit out of there.
Speaker 3: I am going to hopefully tape a few of my
Speaker 3: TV segments I am on TV Fox seven and Austin.
Speaker 3: If you're listening up there, Great day, Houston. I've already
Speaker 3: checked with Ralph Garcia, my executive producer over there, and
Speaker 3: he said, hey, man, shoot a few things from China.
Speaker 3: I will talk about the tariffs. I know there's a
Speaker 3: massive language barrier. However, I do have a few phones
Speaker 3: that automatically use Google Translate that I may be able
Speaker 3: to communicate. I will give you my thoughts on China.
Speaker 3: But interesting, if you've ever been there, what do I
Speaker 3: need to visit somebodace. I am specifically going, and I'll
Speaker 3: end it with this. I'm going to shin Zen, which
Speaker 3: is the south point, very south point of China, just
Speaker 3: above Hong Kong. And it's cool because I'm flying into
Speaker 3: Hong Kong. I believe it's a law you cannot fly
Speaker 3: directly from the US directly into China. You have to
Speaker 3: stop at another country, Hong Kong, which is without getting
Speaker 3: into politics, it's we're just gonna call it. It's on
Speaker 3: the southern tip of China and shinz In is only
Speaker 3: like a thirty minute drive and then I'm driving across
Speaker 3: the border. So anyway, hey, folks, I just hope I
Speaker 3: come back that that that that that's all. That's all
Speaker 3: I'm saying three four six twenty nine text And when
Speaker 3: we come back, I am going to talk about international travel.
Speaker 3: This is the season where people are traveling more. I'm
Speaker 3: seeing some airlines, you know, kind of cut a few rates.
Speaker 3: H Do you want to do you want to what
Speaker 3: do you travel with? Do you travel with meds? Do
Speaker 3: you travel with pillows? Do you travel with earphones, headphones, laptops.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you some must have to travel
Speaker 3: and I would love hearing from you. Also got some
Speaker 3: emails earlier this week, garf what what are some of
Speaker 3: the really good places to sell some electronics. I'm getting
Speaker 3: some new electronics. I need to sell them. I don't
Speaker 3: want to throw them away. Also an absolute classic, for
Speaker 3: the first time I had a scam on voicemail. Never
Speaker 3: happened before I recorded it. I'm gonna play it and
Speaker 3: I doubt I'll get in trouble. I don't know, unless
Speaker 3: I don't know on podcast, unless we have to pay
Speaker 3: royalties for this thing. It was the craziest thing. I'll
Speaker 3: play that sometimes this first hour it is Michael Garfield,
Speaker 3: logdy radio host. Here the high tech text in the
Speaker 3: show Happy Weekend, and I do appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Two years.
Speaker 3: Travel time coming up with just the season as we
Speaker 3: get the springtime. Anybody escaping the eat of Texas over
Speaker 3: the next three four five months, either domestically or internationally.
Speaker 3: This is some of the things that I'm going to
Speaker 3: talk about in the high tech text and show. Really
Speaker 3: it's give you some jet suggestions of where to go, Yes,
Speaker 3: I do travel too, how to get there? Airlines? Anybody
Speaker 3: got some good deals? Which airlines are maybe a little cooler,
Speaker 3: easier to navigate than the others, Which has better faster
Speaker 3: Wi Fi? And we talk about that or take your suggestions,
Speaker 3: and really what do you pack? You know on these
Speaker 3: long haul flights, there are battery there's electric electricity outlets
Speaker 3: that you can plug a lot of your gear into.
Speaker 3: You know, gone or the day is at least of
Speaker 3: these long haul flights where you've got to take extra
Speaker 3: batteries I still am. I talk about this because I
Speaker 3: am getting ready to go very, very far west. I
Speaker 3: am traveling this week so far west that I will
Speaker 3: be in the far East, if that makes sense. I
Speaker 3: am leaving from Houston, connecting in San Francisco, and then
Speaker 3: I think it's a fourteen or fifteen hour freaking flight
Speaker 3: to Hong Kong. Once I get to Hong Kong, hopefully
Speaker 3: they're gonna let me across the border. When I drive
Speaker 3: across to China, it's long, and they coming back. You
Speaker 3: won't even You don't even want to know how I'm
Speaker 3: coming back. I'm not even coming back east. I'm continuing
Speaker 3: to go west through Katar. I literally am traveling around
Speaker 3: the world next week. I mean literally, I am Jules
Speaker 3: Verne on steroid. Anybody done that? It is gonna and
Speaker 3: listen for this, adhd adhd. Guy. I have no clue
Speaker 3: how I'm gonna sit still on this airplane and image people.
Speaker 3: Any suggestions? Three four six, twenty nine texts And Michael
Speaker 3: is the name. It is Michael Garfield. It's it's called
Speaker 3: the High Tech Text. And shall we talk about whatever
Speaker 3: the world I want to talk about or wherever in
Speaker 3: the world that I am so doing research, and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna give you some tips. Should you travel outside of
Speaker 3: this country because I get these questions to Michael, Do
Speaker 3: I need a do I need a new phone plan?
Speaker 3: Can I if I have a big phone plan? If
Speaker 3: I have a Verizon, if I have T Mobile, if
Speaker 3: I have an A D and T. Should I light
Speaker 3: up my international plan? Should I get a new simcard
Speaker 3: here in the United States? Or should I get one
Speaker 3: in the country I'm traveling to? These are all great questions. Heck,
Speaker 3: should I get a burner phone? I just get another
Speaker 3: whole phone. I'm gonna talk about that too. The last
Speaker 3: time I last year I went to I did a
Speaker 3: Berlin trip and I did London trip, and I got
Speaker 3: an E SIM card. Most phones nowadays, well pretty much
Speaker 3: all phones pretty much, they generally have a SIM card.
Speaker 3: It's a physical card and there's a little apartment in
Speaker 3: your phone. If you look at it that you have
Speaker 3: to take this little tiny pen and it pops out.
Speaker 3: If you ever do it, it's about the size of
Speaker 3: your pinky fingernail. That is pretty much your phone number
Speaker 3: wherever you take and pop that out and put it
Speaker 3: into a new phone. That new phone will carry and
Speaker 3: be your phone number as long as they're compatible. Well.
Speaker 3: Now phones also, the newer phones have what's called electronic
Speaker 3: sim cards. Even though it's not a physical card, some
Speaker 3: phones have the opportunity to in.
Speaker 1: What you do is you.
Speaker 3: Download, you go to a service, and there's hundreds of
Speaker 3: services where you could download a specific SIM for whatever
Speaker 3: country you're flying to. And this is where you do
Speaker 3: some research and I researched this, and I researched China,
Speaker 3: and then you buy it based on how many gigabytes
Speaker 3: of data you think you're gonna lose. Yes, there's opportunity
Speaker 3: to download a little bit more if you want to
Speaker 3: use voice calls. But generally these e SIM cards, the
Speaker 3: best pound, you know, bang for the buck is going
Speaker 3: to be data data data where you could download your email,
Speaker 3: surf to a website and then you could utilize surfing
Speaker 3: over using an app like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger. At that point,
Speaker 3: you can use an internet phone or internet you know, video,
Speaker 3: you know type of service. But newer phones, some of
Speaker 3: them will let you download not one, but two different
Speaker 3: e SIM cards. Whether you're traveling from country to country
Speaker 3: or what have you. They're they're relatively easy to do.
Speaker 3: I actually got one ERL I'm using it from. I'm
Speaker 3: trying one from a company called A I R A
Speaker 3: L O. I think I paid fifteen bucks and I'm
Speaker 3: getting five gigs of data. By the way, little trick,
Speaker 3: I was wondering what cause I can get five gigs
Speaker 3: of data? And again I'm going for I will be
Speaker 3: on the ground for like four and a half days.
Speaker 3: How much data am I going to need or use?
Speaker 3: Before I purchase a SIM card E sim card, you
Speaker 3: can go into your phone and you can go into
Speaker 3: your mobile network at in the settings and you could
Speaker 3: see how much data you use on a weekly, monthly basis.
Speaker 3: And that's what I did. Now, this is pure sell data.
Speaker 3: This is not Wi Fi. I use a lot of
Speaker 3: Wi Fi. You should be using a lot of Wi
Speaker 3: Fi at your home, at your office, at your library,
Speaker 3: at your grocery store, at your mall, wherever you are.
Speaker 3: You may not use hardly in any data. So I
Speaker 3: generally use five, six seven gigs of data in a
Speaker 3: month because I utilize Wi Fi so much, because I'm
Speaker 3: at home a lot. So I figured, well, it's five
Speaker 3: gig going to be good for a week. It should it,
Speaker 3: So it's the team Bucks whatever it is, and so
Speaker 3: I will. I will let you know how the service
Speaker 3: in China using aralow. That's number one, Michael Garfield. The
Speaker 3: phone number here three four six twenty nine Texan two
Speaker 3: nine t e x A N if you want to
Speaker 3: get on this VPNs. I am told China is, and
Speaker 3: I guess I should be careful because they may China
Speaker 3: may be monitoring. Hello China, we love your baby. I'm
Speaker 3: coming for you. Uh. China is a little different China does.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying they don't like it, but I don't
Speaker 3: think China lets a lot of Western culture, meaning the
Speaker 3: US and whatever into the country of China. They have
Speaker 3: a block on a lot of things. I don't think.
Speaker 3: May be one of the only countries in the world
Speaker 3: where you cannot get my iHeartRadio show. I will find
Speaker 3: that out in person next week. To get around that.
Speaker 3: There are VPNs virtual private networks, and one of the
Speaker 3: first things I was told you need a VPN. I
Speaker 3: have a few VPNs on my computer and I made
Speaker 3: sure already to download a VPN for my tablet and
Speaker 3: on my phone. Did you know you can get a
Speaker 3: VPN for your phone. Yes, you can't. Many many companies
Speaker 3: off your company, if you're a corporate. Here at iHeartMedia,
Speaker 3: we have our own VPN. I went ahead and I
Speaker 3: wanted to test one or two more, so I downloaded
Speaker 3: a few more. One of which I'm testing is called
Speaker 3: Express VPN. Express VPN I think it's about thirteen bones
Speaker 3: a month. You can get an entire year for one
Speaker 3: hundred bucks or whatever it is. Again, do you need
Speaker 3: what It's great to have a VPN. It really is.
Speaker 3: But if you travel to foreign countries, if you do
Speaker 3: a lot of things that you know you don't want
Speaker 3: anything you hope you don't want anything intercepted or hacked into,
Speaker 3: you really should have a VPN. So I'm trying ExpressVPN.
Speaker 3: Express VPN is nice because the at least the package
Speaker 3: that I got, whatever I got, I can have up
Speaker 3: to eight different devices utilize it. So paid for it
Speaker 3: and I downloaded on my phone, on my tablet, on
Speaker 3: my laptop, and I actually got a few phones, and
Speaker 3: so I'm going to use that. What it does when
Speaker 3: you're in another country, it connects through the Internet through
Speaker 3: a different country. Yes, it'll it'll connect via cel, it'll
Speaker 3: connect via Wi Fi. So again, let's just say I'm
Speaker 3: in China and I'm in Why and I'm in a mall,
Speaker 3: and let's just say they have free Wi Fi. I
Speaker 3: don't know it general that Wi Fi is connected to
Speaker 3: a Chinese server. Wait a minute. By using a VPN,
Speaker 3: I'm tunneling, it's going to mask where I am. It's
Speaker 3: going to trick this is legal though. It's going to
Speaker 3: trick that localized server into thinking I'm in another country,
Speaker 3: so I actually can have express VPN or my my art,
Speaker 3: you know, media VPN. It's going to think I'm a
Speaker 3: United States. So yes, I'm physically in China, but whenever
Speaker 3: I connect online, it's going to think I am in
Speaker 3: the United States, which is hopefully will allow me to
Speaker 3: get phone calls. Will's allow me to get email? Again?
Speaker 3: I will, I'll let you know, give me a few
Speaker 3: weeks when I come back, and I will totally give
Speaker 3: you the play by play when we come back. Big
Speaker 3: question go back to phones. Do I need a burner phone?
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna give you this lead. If you're traveling international,
Speaker 3: should you consider getting a burner phone? And if you're
Speaker 3: listening to me out of the country, when you come
Speaker 3: into the US, should you get a burner foote and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make a case why it may not be
Speaker 3: a bad idea. At the bottom of the hour, Michael
Speaker 3: Garfield's called the high Tech Tax and show I do
Speaker 3: appreciate tuning in listening, kid. No, This coming week is
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Speaker 3: allowed to say that. It doesn't mean anything bad. It
Speaker 3: means you're a coin collector. I'm actually a philatalist, which
Speaker 3: also is legal too. I'm a stamp collector. Actually I
Speaker 3: used to be a flat like. I have a nice
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Speaker 3: Quand qwan The master Of kwan talk about international travel
Speaker 3: AS i make my way west west west west west
Speaker 3: around the world To Hong kong In. China business it's
Speaker 3: a business. Trip. People if and we're talking about gear
Speaker 3: to bring or what you need to download or be
Speaker 3: careful of VPNs virtual private. Networks do you light up
Speaker 3: your phone with an international? Plan can your phone actually
Speaker 3: is certainly in the country Of. China can it receive?
Speaker 3: Calls can it receive? Data do you need an E
Speaker 3: sim card or should you get a burner? Phone should
Speaker 3: you get a burner?
Speaker 4: Phone?
Speaker 3: Now does everybody understand what a burner phone. Is it's
Speaker 3: a device that does not include pretty much everything all
Speaker 3: your personal. Correspondence you, know there have been some increasing
Speaker 3: reports that customs And border patrol that they are scanning
Speaker 3: mobile devices and some that again, anecdotally they're turning people,
Speaker 3: away they're confiscating phones on, whatever and that's not. Good
Speaker 3: but even if you're not traveling a burner, PHONE i,
Speaker 3: mean it could be pretty because it could cut down
Speaker 3: on unsolicited calls and. Whatever and actually a next, BREAK
Speaker 3: i gotta play you. THIS i Was i'm getting are
Speaker 3: you getting texts that are like? SCAMS i got a voicemail.
Speaker 3: Scam give me about twelve, minutes AND i GOTTA i recorded.
Speaker 3: This you got to you gotta hear the craziest voicemail
Speaker 3: scam THAT i. Got but if you have a burner,
Speaker 3: phone odds are you can cut down on this. Stuff
Speaker 3: it's like a prepaid. Phone it's a cheap prepay phone
Speaker 3: with zero. COMMITMENTS i mean sometimes comes with a set
Speaker 3: number of prepaid call minutes or texting messages or. Data
Speaker 3: and then really it is designed to be disposed after.
Speaker 3: USE i, mean where was this When Tom brady needed
Speaker 3: at a burner phone way back in the. Day their contract.
Speaker 3: Free you can grab them off the, counter you can
Speaker 3: buy them. ONLINE i mean they're called burner phones because
Speaker 3: technically you can burn them or trash them after, use
Speaker 3: and they really can't be traced. Back why should you get, one,
Speaker 3: WELL i mean number. One burner phones are an easy
Speaker 3: way to avoid cell phone contracts spam that you may
Speaker 3: be getting on your primary phone. Number they're not linked
Speaker 3: to your. Identity you can avoid getting tracked or. Contacted
Speaker 3: if that's what you, want you can you can get
Speaker 3: a burner. Phone as a secondary phone for specific. Purpose
Speaker 3: maybe you can do some business or when you're roaming or. Traveling,
Speaker 3: now good, Question, okay actually just got an email over.
Speaker 3: Here Hey. Michael what's the difference between a burner, phone
Speaker 3: a prepay, phone a, smartphone and burner? Sims what is
Speaker 3: all this? Stuff? Oh let me, SEE i can break
Speaker 3: this down real. Quick burner phones they're typically, cheap featured,
Speaker 3: phones don't come with a lot of bells and whistles
Speaker 3: like a smartphone. Does, okay designed to be cheap and.
Speaker 3: Disposable all burner phones are prepaid, phones but not all
Speaker 3: prepaid phones are burner. Phones, huh you get. It what
Speaker 3: sets of burner apart is that you will not have
Speaker 3: to give away any personal inf to get. One it
Speaker 3: won't be traceable to. You prepaid smartphones they're generally lower
Speaker 3: end models to begin. With, however you can you, know
Speaker 3: you can use any unlocked smartphone with a PREPAID sim
Speaker 3: if you want. To you can get a burner phone from.
Speaker 3: LISTEN i Think, Walmart target best By Big it's seven
Speaker 3: to eleven right to all this. Stuff they have burner
Speaker 3: phones in to fifty, dollars may cost a little more
Speaker 3: if you want to get some more, minutes more data
Speaker 3: with the phone and what have. You it's it's up
Speaker 3: to you who you want to get. One, now. Listen
Speaker 3: there's also some apps that let you get secondary phone.
Speaker 3: Numbers there's burner. Apps There's google, five, there There's Google.
Speaker 3: Voice you can get a lot of this. Stuff i'm
Speaker 3: not going to call them burners in the ideal sense
Speaker 3: because they're typically go. Act they're going to actually have
Speaker 3: some personal, information but uh. INFORMATION i do not have
Speaker 3: a burner. PHONE i don't plan to get a burner
Speaker 3: phone on this upcoming international. TRIP i. AM i already.
Speaker 3: DID i did get an E sim. Card and, again
Speaker 3: if you're just tuning IN, sim those little it's most
Speaker 3: all phones have A sim card that are built into
Speaker 3: little tiny. Things what A SIM sim stands for a
Speaker 3: Subscriber identity. Module it's a little tiny about the size
Speaker 3: of your pinky. Fingernail it's like a small circuit, card
Speaker 3: a small it's a smart, card and they use in
Speaker 3: cell phones and satellite phones to store your data and
Speaker 3: information about your, user about your mobile. Service it's really
Speaker 3: your phone. Number you can pop THAT sim card, out
Speaker 3: you take a little. Pin you can put that in other.
Speaker 3: Phones now there's e as an EMBEDDED sim modern, smartphones
Speaker 3: a lot of other devices they use e, sims so
Speaker 3: you don't need the physical chip or a separate. Card
Speaker 3: you can just go to a company and you can.
Speaker 3: Downloaded and that's WHAT i. DID i went to a
Speaker 3: company in this case it's CALLED ai R. ALO i
Speaker 3: THINK i got like a fifteen dollars plan AND i
Speaker 3: Could you could always tap top it off if you want,
Speaker 3: to if you use more, gigs and you do have
Speaker 3: to be country. SPECIFIC i think there's like in aero
Speaker 3: low how many is it three hundred countries or something
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty? Countries whatever your country you're going,
Speaker 3: to you buy an e simcar for that. COUNTRY i
Speaker 3: recommend downloading it installing it before you get. There, okay
Speaker 3: before you even get on the. Plane you don't need
Speaker 3: to light it up, yet because once you land in
Speaker 3: a foreign, country the second you turn on your regular
Speaker 3: cell phone, service at that point you're. Roaming at that,
Speaker 3: point it could cost you a lot of. Money so
Speaker 3: WHAT i do WHEN i get on a, PLANE i
Speaker 3: turned my airplane mode, on which means no, communication No,
Speaker 3: bluetooth No Wi, fi and certainly no cell. Phone. Day,
Speaker 3: now WHEN i do travel on an airline that does
Speaker 3: Have Wi, fi you could turn your airplane mode, on
Speaker 3: but you can also turn Your bluetooth on you and
Speaker 3: you could turn Your Wi fi. On a lot of
Speaker 3: air air And i'm gonna talk about this next. Hour
Speaker 3: a lot of airlines they also Have Wi. Fi but
Speaker 3: pretty MUCH i turn my data off AND i keep
Speaker 3: that data off the entire. Trip then you light up the,
Speaker 3: simcard THE E sim, card that. Simcard then at that
Speaker 3: point it doesn't use your home based data, plan which
Speaker 3: could cost you an armatal egg for. Roaming you're actually
Speaker 3: using this local. Number it's not your not your same phone,
Speaker 3: number but pretty much if you have it on your,
Speaker 3: phone you're gonna be able to connect cellularly is that a?
Speaker 3: Word to whatever country? Sell and then you're gonna be
Speaker 3: able to download your your, email your apps and. Everything
Speaker 3: so that's what it. Is how Much I'M I i'm
Speaker 3: actually gonna try that. Thing so that's what it. Is
Speaker 3: i'm looking for tips from, you tips to. Travel i'm
Speaker 3: trying half this. New, HELLO i don't, Travel, yeah DO i?
Speaker 3: HAVE i have like two or three net, pillows and
Speaker 3: like an, idiot SOMETIMES i forget to bring. THEM i.
Speaker 3: AM i am flying so freaking. FAR i THINK i
Speaker 3: got a. WELL i got a four ror, flight a
Speaker 3: fourteen hour, flight got Like i'm traveling eighteen hours each. Way,
Speaker 3: Literally i'm going west the entire. Time go, west young.
Speaker 3: MAN i need a, bed AND i Hope, UNITED i Hope.
Speaker 3: Katar i'm Going united over. There i'm Going qatar on
Speaker 3: the way. Back you did not purchase one of these
Speaker 3: first class Little pilaris. Things that's heaven from WHAT i.
Speaker 3: Hear So i'm gonna need one of these travel. PILLOWS
Speaker 3: i need a lot Of i'm gonna need. Meds i'm
Speaker 3: gonna need travel. PILLOWS i don't. Know i'm testing out
Speaker 3: this one travel. Pillow it's called it's actually made designed
Speaker 3: By Eustonian. Slop very interesting. Too it's different. Again i'll do.
Speaker 3: Something follow me On. Instagram follow me On instagram because
Speaker 3: if for some Reason china lets me produce record and
Speaker 3: upload and get out information From, china and you can
Speaker 3: follow Me instagram high tech texts and spell the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Out H i g H T e c H t
Speaker 3: e X A n when we come. BACK i got
Speaker 3: to play this voicemail scam kind of craziest, one how
Speaker 3: to potentially stop voicemail. Scams and, also, YES i am
Speaker 3: going to talk a little about. Tariffs apparently there's a
Speaker 3: pause in. Tariffs hopefully it's paused another week or so
Speaker 3: SO i don't get tariffed on my way back. Home and,
Speaker 3: also if you had to pick one device to make
Speaker 3: your home a, Smartphone i'm gonna tell you what that one.
Speaker 3: Device let's see if you can deals with others. Too
Speaker 3: Michael garfield is to. Day it is the High tech
Speaker 3: nets and. Show, yeah a few minutes until the top
Speaker 3: of the, hour and then you gotta hang on for
Speaker 3: another hour of The High Tech textan, show just like
Speaker 3: that big booming voice intro Says michael is the Name.
Speaker 3: Garf if we are tight three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: textan for some reason we do not pick up the,
Speaker 3: phone feel free to leave a. Voicemail we do have
Speaker 3: the right to play your, voicemail which is WHAT i
Speaker 3: am going to do here in a few minutes after this.
Speaker 3: Story i'm not gonna play anybody specifically voicemail BECAUSE i
Speaker 3: don't know who this person. Is because it was a
Speaker 3: it was a, scam it was a potential, scam AND
Speaker 3: i AND i recorded, it And i'm gonna play it
Speaker 3: for you BECAUSE i want buyer. Beware garf tells you
Speaker 3: to be WHERE i am here to protect you because
Speaker 3: we are getting so much spam text messages right? Now
Speaker 3: are our cell phones even voicemail? Messages how many times
Speaker 3: a day do you text? People how many times a
Speaker 3: day do you get text messages from unknown? Senders it's
Speaker 3: it's not even. Funny it could be a scammer trying
Speaker 3: to steal your personal and financial. Information because scammers send
Speaker 3: fake text messages to trick you into giving them your personal, information,
Speaker 3: password account, numbers social and if they get that, info
Speaker 3: they can gain access to your, email your, bank your other.
Speaker 3: Accounts they could sell your information other. Scammers, people would
Speaker 3: you stop? It tolltag's are a hot thing for some. Reason,
Speaker 3: hey you haven't paid your toll? Tag payoup there or.
Speaker 3: Something i've gotten a few of those promises of free,
Speaker 3: prizes gift, cards. Coupons, oh we've got a no interest
Speaker 3: credit card. Up can we help you pay off your student?
Speaker 3: Loan oh that's. NICE i don't have a student, loan
Speaker 3: But i'm glad you did your research to send me.
Speaker 3: This so there there are some ways to quickly. Assess
Speaker 3: let me help you. Out ain't ain't? Real like if
Speaker 3: when my phone, RINGS i look at the number CALLER,
Speaker 3: id IF i IF i if the name doesn't pop,
Speaker 3: up or if it's not in my phone AND i
Speaker 3: just see a, number ninety eight percent CHANCE i do
Speaker 3: not answer. IT i let it go to. Voicemail, now
Speaker 3: fifty sixty percent of those are. LEGIT i just don't
Speaker 3: know that. Person they're not in my, phone my contact. List,
Speaker 3: okay that's, cool but a lot more. Crap polo scammers
Speaker 3: send fake messages that say they have information about your
Speaker 3: account or. Transaction so we've noticed some suspicious activity on your.
Speaker 3: Account you know they. Haven't there's there's a problem with
Speaker 3: your payment. INFORMATION i know there. Isn't we're gonna send
Speaker 3: you a fake. Invoice you need to contact us because
Speaker 3: you need to Author is this purchase new the old
Speaker 3: package delivery? Notification, hey we're holding this at the post.
Speaker 3: Office please let me do don't click on the, Thing
Speaker 3: what do you do with? It what do you do about?
Speaker 3: It your phone actually may have an option to filter
Speaker 3: and block spam messages from unknown. Senders mind does do?
Speaker 3: It you could also report it your wireless. Provider they
Speaker 3: may have a, tool they may have a. Service they'll
Speaker 3: let you block calls and text. Messages you are actually,
Speaker 3: apps they're called blocking apps that you let you block
Speaker 3: unwanted text. Messages doesn't matter if you have An, Android, BlackBerry, Apple,
Speaker 3: window whatever it, is you can report. It did you
Speaker 3: know you actually hear no trivia the? Day if you
Speaker 3: get an unwanted text, messages you could forward forward that
Speaker 3: directly from your phone to seven seven, six which ironically spells,
Speaker 3: spam and that helps your wireless provider spot and block
Speaker 3: similar messages in the. Future that's, it just for. IT
Speaker 3: i mean you could for text messages forward it to.
Speaker 3: Spam that's all you need to. Do extra one. Thing
Speaker 3: do you ever get a voicemail? Scamp, Well i'll tell
Speaker 3: you what stand by for. This this is pretty interesting
Speaker 3: AND i Hope i'm gonna play it and and count
Speaker 3: and Count calum he's working on the board over, there
Speaker 3: and make sure that the. Pivot i'm gonna play. This
Speaker 3: and there's there's. Music SO i don't know if we're.
Speaker 3: ALLOWED i don't know if there's a license for this,
Speaker 3: thing because you, KNOW i, heart we're not supposed to play.
Speaker 3: THIS i DON'T i don't. Know this may not be real.
Speaker 3: Music this may be some person just playing a. GUITAR
Speaker 3: i get a, call didn't answer. IT a voicemail was.
Speaker 3: Left this is WHAT i.
Speaker 1: Heard but Him.
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Speaker 3: Up tell them there.
Speaker 4: That's the man of. Is this call is to authorize
Speaker 4: the payment of one, thousand four hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 4: dollars for the recent order Of Apple MacBook pro on
Speaker 4: Your amazon. Account if you do not authorize this, payment
Speaker 4: please press one to speak to our customer support.
Speaker 3: Representative what do you think the odds THAT i hit
Speaker 3: the number one on my? Phone what was? That? Okay
Speaker 3: callums his lap and you're on the floor back there
Speaker 3: Behind they glad that was. CRAZY i had to record.
Speaker 3: IT i just wanted to play. IT i just WANT
Speaker 3: i just want to let people know this is the
Speaker 3: crazy stuff that's out. There so were they trying to
Speaker 3: capture my? Attention oh what a lovely. Song i'm gonna
Speaker 3: hang on and continually to listen to this voicemail BEFORE
Speaker 3: i get the. Message, oh they need authorization THAT A
Speaker 3: i bought An apple, product WHICH i would never buy
Speaker 3: An apple. Product b Through. AMAZON i would never buy
Speaker 3: An apple product Through, amazon but, yeah, sure let me
Speaker 3: go ahead and push one to authorize. IT i, mean,
Speaker 3: PEOPLE i know my, Listeners you're very. Smart you're smarter than.
Speaker 3: Me what are the the demographics THAT i? Had what
Speaker 3: percentage of my listeners would push the number? One? Zero
Speaker 3: but there are people out there who do? It? Now
Speaker 3: where would that? Go if you push? One should you Be,
Speaker 3: actually if you actually picked up and listen to, it
Speaker 3: it could connect you to phone numbers that are outside
Speaker 3: The United states that are almost like collect calling numbers
Speaker 3: where they charge. YOU i, MEAN i don't even. KNOW
Speaker 3: i just thought that Was. Chris has anybody ever had
Speaker 3: a voicemail scam like? THAT i just thought it was,
Speaker 3: interesting SO i guess it wouldn't, attack So i'm not
Speaker 3: forwarding it to the. AUTHORITIES i use that as purely.
Speaker 3: Content and by the, way that was you calling. ME
Speaker 3: i apologize for making fun of, you BUT i DON'T
Speaker 3: i do not know who you, Are but if you
Speaker 3: feel free to send a. PHOTO i don't do online,
Speaker 3: dating but maybe that's a new way of online. DATING
Speaker 3: i am not. Sure, these my, friends are some of
Speaker 3: the hot topics THAT i talk about all, right as
Speaker 3: we get to the top of the, hour coming, back
Speaker 3: here's the tease to keep you through the top of the.
Speaker 3: Hour you had one product to make your home a smart,
Speaker 3: home And i'm guessing here is at least one, product
Speaker 3: if not ten products in your homes that make your
Speaker 3: home smart. Home what would that one product? Beat it
Speaker 3: may have been the very very first product to make
Speaker 3: your home a smart. HOME i Know i've had three
Speaker 3: of them for, gosh eight to ten. Years But i'll
Speaker 3: tell you. Why, actually it's smart to have this. Thing
Speaker 3: even if you refuse to have a smart home device
Speaker 3: and it is not he give you a boor we got.
Speaker 3: Daft we have more tariff. News also answering your, question
Speaker 3: one of the best places to sell your. Electronics you
Speaker 3: probably have a lot of them like, me stacked up
Speaker 3: in your, dride in your. CLOSET i will tell you
Speaker 3: what to. Do one more hour of The High Tech Texan.
Speaker 3: Show it Is Michael.
Speaker 1: Garfield Is michael Garfil Michael. Garfield Michael garfield's joining you
Speaker 1: and The High Tech. Texan Michael garfield is here with
Speaker 1: a High Tech texans to make life. Easier technology And
Speaker 1: Michael garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 2: On Michael, garfield is your High Tech texans three decades
Speaker 2: helping you make magic with your, gadgets heard worldwide on
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Speaker 2: Michael garfield.
Speaker 3: The beginning of the second hour of the two Hour
Speaker 3: High Tech Texan, show which means we've completed one. Hour
Speaker 3: we have one hour to, go which we're halfway through the.
Speaker 3: Show so say it with, me my longtime. Listeners we
Speaker 3: are halfway to a happy. Hour it is the. Weekend
Speaker 3: there is actually the very religiously. Weekend we've got the
Speaker 3: end Of. Passova we, uh it was, beautiful it Was
Speaker 3: we had a, great Good. Friday do you have a
Speaker 3: Good friday or a Great? Friday got? Uh Easter bunny
Speaker 3: got the Pass we've got To. Easter this this this.
Speaker 3: Weekend a lot of things going on in. Show if
Speaker 3: you have no The masters was last weekend that was
Speaker 3: not there was the last week was not halfway to happy.
Speaker 3: Hour last week was all happy. Hour what a Great.
Speaker 3: Masters good For. Rory i'm actually happy for. Him, however
Speaker 3: you are celebrating this, weekend hope you're having it with
Speaker 3: a nice, cocktail responsibly and you're over twenty. One as
Speaker 3: we continue The Michael Garfield High Tech Textan, show a
Speaker 3: lot of topics last. Hour get ready to download the.
Speaker 3: Podcast you can go to the iHeartRadio app anywhere in the,
Speaker 3: world Accept, china WHICH i will tell you firsthand WHEN
Speaker 3: i return From china next. Week if indeed you can
Speaker 3: or cannot listen to a lot of or communicate to
Speaker 3: The western, WORLD i will find. Out AS i am
Speaker 3: take it off to the very very Far. East i'm
Speaker 3: doing some research on, tariffs meeting a number of technological,
Speaker 3: companies a lot of tech companies based in shins In.
Speaker 3: CHINA i still have open phone lines or if you
Speaker 3: want to email Me michael at High Tech textan dot.
Speaker 3: Com tips on international, travel what to do when In.
Speaker 3: China Remember i'm Going i'm going to the southern tip Of,
Speaker 3: china not going To, beijing not going To, shanghai not
Speaker 3: gonna see the Birthplace Siyao. Ming just standing down in Southern.
Speaker 3: China Hong kong is, era so got things to. DO
Speaker 3: i hear it's pretty hot and, humid my Niche tenas we,
Speaker 3: say climate sims is probably is going to be just
Speaker 3: exactly Like. HOUSTON i will tell you about. That so
Speaker 3: any we download the first hour on the iHeartRadio, app
Speaker 3: because you can hear me talk about what to. Bring
Speaker 3: i'm going to try out some new body neck. PILLOW
Speaker 3: i GOT vpna. DOWNLOADED i got an e. SIMCARD i
Speaker 3: talked about burner. Phones and so as you do plan
Speaker 3: your travel vacation this coming, summer you probably should listen
Speaker 3: to it kind of bookmarket and share your travel. Tips
Speaker 3: three four six twenty nine textan is the phone? Number
Speaker 3: IF i don't, answer leave a voicemail and you heard
Speaker 3: a don't scam. ME i record. Everything the voicemail is,
Speaker 3: recorded and just about five minutes, ago if you just tuned,
Speaker 3: IN i played a voicemail. Scam because your phone is
Speaker 3: your bestrid but it could be, very very. Dangerous another
Speaker 3: QUESTION i get other than is that your real? Hair
Speaker 3: yes it. Is how DO i TELL garf if my
Speaker 3: phone has been hacked or? Tapped it's a very good.
Speaker 3: QUESTION i, mean has your phone recently slowed? Down is
Speaker 3: your battery draining faster than you more than? Usual it
Speaker 3: could be a sign that your your phone has been.
Speaker 3: Hacked it could be a sign something's. Issues so number,
Speaker 3: one some of the common signs to answer your question
Speaker 3: if your phone has been. Hacked is your battery draining?
Speaker 3: Fast because if mobile spyware is on, there it's constantly
Speaker 3: going to monitor your. Phone it's going to relay data
Speaker 3: back to the host that you didn't even know it's
Speaker 3: supposed to be, there and doing this consumes a lot of,
Speaker 3: power which means your battery levels are going to drop
Speaker 3: faster than. Usual that is a very big indicator that
Speaker 3: someone is spying on. You are you noticing unfamiliar log
Speaker 3: ins social media companies they're pretty good at detecting and you,
Speaker 3: know unusual, activity and they're immediately going to send you
Speaker 3: an alert if someone logs in at any unusual time or
Speaker 3: has to re enter your. Credentials if you get a
Speaker 3: message like, this change your password. Immediately. Right is your phone's?
Speaker 3: Luggish if your device is getting slow if you use
Speaker 3: an app commonly and all of a sudden it starts freezing,
Speaker 3: up maybe a victim of phone. Hating keep a close
Speaker 3: eye on your app loading times and refresh. Rates. Right
Speaker 3: abnormal storage. Use if spyware is invisible at first, glance
Speaker 3: they're taking up room on your phone. Storage if you
Speaker 3: suspect that your apps and your. Files they really shouldn't
Speaker 3: be taken as much space as you're looking. At you
Speaker 3: can connect your phone to computer and investigate how much
Speaker 3: storage you really have on there are? There how about?
Speaker 3: THIS i hear this a. Lot hey there's an app
Speaker 3: on my. PHONE i didn't install. IT i, mean it's
Speaker 3: easy to lose track of how many apps you have to,
Speaker 3: install and hackers tend to explore that. Fact so if
Speaker 3: you notice several apps that you don't remember, installing it
Speaker 3: could be a sign of. Hacking so that's how you
Speaker 3: kind of tell what's going. On AND i guess the
Speaker 3: answer is how do you keep your device? Safe, well
Speaker 3: it's very tough to do, that but my tips are
Speaker 3: you need to regularly look at your phone's. Performance watch
Speaker 3: your battery's. Health if the number is, high you're losing charge.
Speaker 3: Fast see if it's being. Hacked take it to the
Speaker 3: store you bought it. At take it to your your data.
Speaker 3: Provider reset the, phone open your phone's app list from
Speaker 3: your settings and look at all the apps that you
Speaker 3: don't remember. Installing look at the dates they were. Installed
Speaker 3: did they all come from one or two? Dates maybe
Speaker 3: there's a malware or spyware that was put on, there
Speaker 3: delete them. Immediately don't leave your phone. Unattended it takes
Speaker 3: minutes to install spy onto a. DEVICE i hope you
Speaker 3: are using some sort of a, passcode, password facial, recognition, fingerprint.
Speaker 3: Biometric if you're leaving your phone, out you may want
Speaker 3: to go ahead and install antivirus. Software that's right there
Speaker 3: are mobile antivirus software is out there. Too mobile the
Speaker 3: VPNs that we talked. About so, ANYWAY i get that
Speaker 3: question a. Lot hopefully that's not going to happen to.
Speaker 3: You hopefully is that that's not going To hopefully you're
Speaker 3: not going to get crazy voicemails LIKE i, got or tech.
Speaker 3: Spammers and if you get a tech by the, way
Speaker 3: the tip of the, day then you don't need to
Speaker 3: pay me because we Tight and by the, WAY i
Speaker 3: just take. Tips if you do get text message, spams
Speaker 3: which you probably get a, lot you can forward. That
Speaker 3: you could forward that to what is it seven seven two,
Speaker 3: six which spells out skey am spam and that's going
Speaker 3: to go to your cell phone provider and that could
Speaker 3: help them delete and block future. STUFF i don't know
Speaker 3: what else what else CAN i? Do ALL i DO
Speaker 3: i work for you. People that's. It i'll give you
Speaker 3: the phone number as we take our first break this
Speaker 3: out already it is three four six twenty Nine. Texan
Speaker 3: big hello to all my listeners terrestrially And, Houston San
Speaker 3: antonio And dallas and everywhere around the world except Maybe
Speaker 3: china on The iHeartRadio dot com or The iHeartRadio. App
Speaker 3: when we come. Back tariffs looks like we've. Paused looks
Speaker 3: like a government going back and forth. Here MAYBE i don't,
Speaker 3: know Maybe china's going to be happy to see me
Speaker 3: right now for the less than ninety days or. So
Speaker 3: and also some good news From. Texas maybe these tariffs
Speaker 3: are doing some good here in THE us as some
Speaker 3: companies are announcing that they're going to build factories manufacturer
Speaker 3: number of things in The United. STATES i will tell
Speaker 3: you at a very very big, company one, of if
Speaker 3: not the biggest company in the world THAT i know
Speaker 3: you've heard, of they're going to start making their product
Speaker 3: or some of their products in a great state Of.
Speaker 3: Texas all that coming up on The High Tech Texan.
Speaker 3: Show no. Secret i'm a big sports, fan no secret at.
Speaker 3: THAT i pretty much live ON. Espn that's WHAT i.
Speaker 3: DO i live. Alone nobody's here with the kids are growing,
Speaker 3: up they're out of the, house don't have a, Pet
Speaker 3: so it's pretty MUCH. Espit, well last last week though
Speaker 3: it was it WAS, cbs it was it Was March
Speaker 3: Madness Final four and The. Masters, okay not the biggest baseball.
Speaker 3: Fan basketball is coming up on THE, nba But i'm
Speaker 3: pretty much kind of gonzo until the end Of august
Speaker 3: when football season sad sad news if you're a college football.
Speaker 3: Fan Lee corso announced that he is retiring FROM, espn,
Speaker 3: tiring retiring from working thirty seven thirty eight years on
Speaker 3: college Game. Day he's the dude who at the end
Speaker 3: of every show when they make their, predictions puts on
Speaker 3: the crazy mascot. Headgear so he's. Gone he's gonna. Eat
Speaker 3: he is an. Institution if there is a if there
Speaker 3: is A Mount, rushmore if there are four people who
Speaker 3: have done more to promote the game of college football
Speaker 3: front facing. People i'm not talking ABOUT ncaa or producers of.
Speaker 3: Espin Lee corso is, One Kirk herbstreet is. TWO i
Speaker 3: Mean i'll go back To Keith, Jackson hello play by.
Speaker 3: Play it could be a, coach it could Be Nick.
Speaker 3: Saban i'm not. Sure Lee corso is a quick if
Speaker 3: you Quickly corso, story Quickly corso. Story dude's ninety years, old, hilarious,
Speaker 3: funny over the, top. Austentatious he's just everybody Loves Lie.
Speaker 3: Corso true story nineteen ninety, two nineteen ninety, one ninety.
Speaker 3: Two i'm a young. BUCK i am living on the
Speaker 3: least coast the only time REALLY i was out Of
Speaker 3: texas in my. LIFE i Think i'm living In, WASHINGTON dc,
Speaker 3: area And i'm working for a sports marketing. Company, YES
Speaker 3: i actually worked for a sports marketing. Company and my
Speaker 3: sports marketing company represented a lot of, athletes and we
Speaker 3: represented a lot Of, olympians one of which Was Janet,
Speaker 3: evans the world Famous olympic gold medalist. SWIMMER i think
Speaker 3: she won in nineteen eighty, eight maybe some gold. Medals
Speaker 3: long story short THAT i was this, young younger dish
Speaker 3: not in close to an intern, dude and they assigned
Speaker 3: my company assigned me to go to drive up To,
Speaker 3: philadelphia which is not that far From, washington D. C
Speaker 3: and go to this allegiate or some big gala and be,
Speaker 3: there not Escort Janet, evans but be her. Handler because
Speaker 3: she was like a. Celebrity they just wanted to controls like.
Speaker 3: That so in a, Way i'm, like, cool are you kidding?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 3: Whatever SO i no, Way i'm this a drive up
Speaker 3: not you know. It it was a few, hours just
Speaker 3: up and down The east. Coast and Now i'm In
Speaker 3: philadelphia AND i, ever ACTUALLY i used to work In.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia that's, Right, YEAH i had worked In. Philadelphia the
Speaker 3: LADY i was a working outside Of philadephia ON. QVC
Speaker 3: i was a show. Host, Again i'm delving into things
Speaker 3: you don't care. About so, Anyway i'm With Janet, evans,
Speaker 3: nice very nice. Girl at that, Point i'm very nice.
Speaker 3: LADY i haven't talked to him many. Years and she
Speaker 3: brought a gold medal AND i got to hold the
Speaker 3: gold medal and take a good and THEN i drove
Speaker 3: her back To, WASHINGTON dc to meet with the her
Speaker 3: agent who worked at our. Company we're In philadelphia And
Speaker 3: Lee corso is giving a keynote. Speech Lee Corso, so
Speaker 3: he is very, famous former college football, coach former college
Speaker 3: football Player Florida. State actually used to room With Burt.
Speaker 3: Reynolds true, story go look it. Up and he's he's,
Speaker 3: hilarious he's, funny he's making jokes or. Whatever and that
Speaker 3: was in. That so in a, Way i'm spending the
Speaker 3: night and it's now after, dinner And i'm, hungry AND
Speaker 3: i kind of Knew. Philadelphia i'm talking To Janet evans
Speaker 3: AND i, said you want to do you want To you're,
Speaker 3: hungry you want to? Go, oh you want to get a?
Speaker 3: Drink and not just totally, platonic, DUDE i, mean just,
Speaker 3: whatever and you want to See? Philadelphia and she says,
Speaker 3: yeah she, Goes i've never had a cheese, steak AND i,
Speaker 3: SAID i know just the. Place and if you know
Speaker 3: From philadelphia back in the, day back in the days
Speaker 3: they were there was in The italian section there was
Speaker 3: two cheese, steaks very, Famous gino's And. Pats they're like
Speaker 3: right across the streets from each. Other i'd happened to
Speaker 3: Know gino younger, dude But gino and it's very famous
Speaker 3: because they have all these famous people of photographs in
Speaker 3: the wall or something like. That so in, ANYWAY i,
Speaker 3: said let's get, Now i'm gonnahry up the. Store SO i,
Speaker 3: said let's let me take you To Gino's. Pizza so
Speaker 3: we're getting in a. Cap so we go down the
Speaker 3: lobby of this hotel and people are milling around. AFTERWARDS
Speaker 3: i may have been in a, SUIT i don't even.
Speaker 3: Know And Lee corso is in the, lobby and of
Speaker 3: COURSE i, am, like you, know a media. WHORE i want.
Speaker 3: Pictures and there was no cell phone. CAMERAS i actually
Speaker 3: had an actual camera. Camera Lee, corso how are you
Speaker 3: a big? Fan AND i work for this company in
Speaker 3: sports and this Is Janet evans and so he you,
Speaker 3: know he gets starstruck and, whatever sod away AND i,
Speaker 3: said great, speech. Whatever AND i, said what are you?
Speaker 3: Doing you fly him back to wherever you're To, florida
Speaker 3: wherever you. Live he, goes, No, No i'm staying. HERE
Speaker 3: i got really nothing to do. TONIGHT i, said, Really
Speaker 3: i'm Taking Janet evans To Geno's, steaks famous cheese. Steak he, says,
Speaker 3: Dude i've never. BEEN i want to. GO i, said
Speaker 3: get in the. Cab. Done i'm in a cab with
Speaker 3: Freaking Lee corso And Janet. Evans. PEOPLE i cannot make this.
Speaker 3: Up ten minutes, later we go To gino's and Luckily
Speaker 3: gino was there AND i walk in and we walk
Speaker 3: up it's not even in it's just like the stand
Speaker 3: of food. Stand and he remembers me from about a year.
Speaker 3: Ago he, goes, hey how were? YOU i remember? You
Speaker 3: so it's sports marketing guy whatever like, That AND i,
Speaker 3: SAID i want to introduce you to gold Medalist Janet
Speaker 3: evans And Leek, horso And gino starts freaking, Out oh my,
Speaker 3: god oh my.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: Comeerica maria takes us in the, back puts aprons on
Speaker 3: us and has us start making and cooking cheese. Steaks
Speaker 3: And corso was. Hilarious you know you're supposed to put
Speaker 3: like three ounces of chopped, steak and melochie dude was
Speaker 3: putting like a pound of beef on eat. Sandwiches and
Speaker 3: he's giving him out the people he. Was he was.
Speaker 3: Hilarious could not have been nice and. Funny they take
Speaker 3: a picture Of, gino Me corso And Janet. EVANS i
Speaker 3: have not been back since nineteen ninety one or. Two
Speaker 3: if anybody, ever if you're listening In, philadelphia if you
Speaker 3: go To, philadelphia if you go To Gino's Cheese, steaks
Speaker 3: look on the, wall AND i want you to see
Speaker 3: if the picture of, Me Lee, Corso Janet evans And
Speaker 3: gino is on that. WALL i look relatively a. Stame
Speaker 3: my hair is absolutely not. Changed But corso couldn't have been.
Speaker 3: Nicer we get back at the. Cab he even paid
Speaker 3: for the cab ride, back signed something for, me and
Speaker 3: he was just a cut. Up what a great. Dude
Speaker 3: that was a very long winded. STORY i apologize has
Speaker 3: nothing to do, technology but this is called The Michael Garfield,
Speaker 3: show AND i can talk with WHATEVER i damn want
Speaker 3: to talk. About Lee, corso we love. You hang in.
Speaker 3: There it is actually time for you to. Retire enjoy
Speaker 3: what you have created for thirty eight years with THE.
Speaker 3: Espn good. Job DO i have any time? Left talk
Speaker 3: about anything? Else DO I what are we gonna talk? About?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Tariffs? No, no, no let me Do, nope. Nope i'm
Speaker 3: taking a. Break take it a break Because i'm freaking.
Speaker 3: HUNGRY i want a cheeseteak right, now BUT i can't
Speaker 3: because there's NO i can't have bread one more day
Speaker 3: THAN i can have some matsa all, right and then
Speaker 3: My matza time is over all. Right when we come,
Speaker 3: Back i'm gonna tell you the world's biggest company is
Speaker 3: going to start making one of their products allegedly in
Speaker 3: the state Of. Texas and so if you were creating
Speaker 3: your own smart, home what is the one, device just
Speaker 3: one that is the smartest device you should have for
Speaker 3: your smart. HOME i will tell you when we come.
Speaker 3: Back i'm a high tech texting show because my name
Speaker 3: Is it's a high tech text and that's my. Moniker
Speaker 3: It's Michael garfield shifting through my emails right. Now thank.
Speaker 3: You apparently everybody did appreciate My Lee corso's. Story i'm very.
Speaker 3: Lucky as we return to the High tech text and.
Speaker 3: Show michael is my, Name Michael. GARFIELD i. AM i
Speaker 3: get to do a lot of things in life Because
Speaker 3: i'm not. SHY i my media Because i've been in
Speaker 3: the media for twenty five. Years between my radio, show
Speaker 3: MY tv and. WHATEVER i can get media cred, anginals
Speaker 3: media passes BECAUSE i really do cover it AND i love.
Speaker 3: SPORTS i am not shy going up to almost anybody going,
Speaker 3: Hey i'm a big. Fan you might if to take a,
Speaker 3: picture you know all that other. Stuff SO i have.
Speaker 3: STORIES i kind of get behind the same, things which
Speaker 3: is really. Cool and that was My if you just
Speaker 3: tune in AND i go back and listen on the
Speaker 3: podcast On iHeartRadio My Lee, Corso olympic gold Swimmer Janet
Speaker 3: evans And Gino's Cheese steak Founder. Gino WHEN i was In,
Speaker 3: philadelphia it was funny we talked about this Because Lee
Speaker 3: corso is just. Retiring you, KNOW i got a lot
Speaker 3: of emails, going no, funny very, funny very cool story
Speaker 3: About Lee. Corso michael can't continue to. Do i'm not
Speaker 3: going to continue. That one THING i know they do
Speaker 3: not have In philadelphia is A Cabo. Bobs AND i Know,
Speaker 3: philadelphians you are, Jelly you're jealous that you do not
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Speaker 3: free to expand more In. HOUSTON i Know dallas they're
Speaker 3: yelling for. Him my parents want them up. There don't
Speaker 3: need to go out of the state Of. Texas just
Speaker 3: Let philadelphia keep their cheese. Stakes just we got the
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Speaker 3: Tariffs i'm Gonna i'm gonna find out a lot about.
Speaker 3: Tariff i'm gonna find out How china and the population
Speaker 3: In china they are they, happy are they? Pissed At
Speaker 3: americans right now BECAUSE i will be In china this coming,
Speaker 3: week my very first trip To. China i'm doing SOME
Speaker 3: tv Stories Great Day houston On channel eleven and obviously
Speaker 3: In houston In Austin fox. Seven i'm going to be
Speaker 3: visiting a number of tech companies that are based, there
Speaker 3: a lot of tech companies based in chins In. China
Speaker 3: i'm gonna get the play by. PLAY a lot of
Speaker 3: things are made In, china they are shipped over to THE,
Speaker 3: US us they could potentially be more. Expensive, however this past,
Speaker 3: week our government they kind of put a pause on,
Speaker 3: tariffs which actually is a good. Thing what does that
Speaker 3: mean for? YOU i spent a lot of time this
Speaker 3: weekend on a lot of my affiliated radio stations AT
Speaker 3: tv stations breaking it. Down what does the pause on
Speaker 3: tech tariffs mean for? You, WELL i told you the
Speaker 3: past few weeks if you're planning to buy a, smartphone
Speaker 3: you need to do it. Quickly you may have just
Speaker 3: caught a break because You're President Donald. Trump he did
Speaker 3: issue some exemptions in tariffs that were targeted at imports From,
Speaker 3: china and that does include, smartphones, computers processing, chips and other.
Speaker 3: Electronics saw this Price the price of an iPhone had
Speaker 3: been projected to go as high as twenty three hundred
Speaker 3: dollars Under trump's plan to impose fifty four percent tariffs On.
Speaker 3: China then he boosted it to one hundred and forty five.
Speaker 3: Percent but now it is back. Down kind of a
Speaker 3: very good scenario for tech because now chips and smartphones
Speaker 3: and computers as.
Speaker 1: Of now are.
Speaker 3: Exempt So Silicon valley and tech giants Like apple And
Speaker 3: microsoft And, nvidia they can breathe a little sigh of
Speaker 3: relief BECAUSE i Think trump ultimately had to listen To
Speaker 3: Silicon valley and what industry execs were telling him in the.
Speaker 3: Winehouse if they went down this path and they did
Speaker 3: not exempt some, technology it would have been very dark days. Ahead,
Speaker 3: yeah bill excluded from that one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 3: percent tariff On. China tech products do appear to still
Speaker 3: be subjected to about twenty percent tariffs that trumpet already
Speaker 3: imposed ON i Think beijing for retaliation for. Manufacturing, again
Speaker 3: try not to get into, politics but this is where
Speaker 3: we are right. Now but the tariff overall good news
Speaker 3: for consumers because right now we're not seeing two thousand
Speaker 3: dollars iPhones or any phones, anymore at least right. Now
Speaker 3: what is this supposed to? Accomplish, WELL i, see AND
Speaker 3: i can kind of think it's supposed to Buy american
Speaker 3: let's start making products In. AMERICA i dig. THAT i
Speaker 3: love me Some, america my favorite country in the. World,
Speaker 3: okay it is, phenomenal THE us of a. Baby bring it,
Speaker 3: on red, white blo flying the. Colors i'll bleed. It
Speaker 3: if we can keep everything In america? Phenomenal can we
Speaker 3: keep the prices low as low as things that are
Speaker 3: shipped from other. Countries, ah that's another. Story SO i
Speaker 3: think our government is trying to, say maybe we get
Speaker 3: these other foreign manufacturers to start manufacturing things in The United. States,
Speaker 3: well guess what it may have, happened because good news
Speaker 3: For United states and good news For texas if this
Speaker 3: does come. TRUE i had just mentioned a company called
Speaker 3: In video in the video one, of if not the world's,
Speaker 3: largest biggest, companies because In vidia makes those supercomputer chips
Speaker 3: that do all the artificial intelligence and THE, ai and
Speaker 3: their stock has gone up and blah blah, blah And
Speaker 3: vidia apparently just made a decision almost certainly informed by
Speaker 3: the recent tariff. Chaos it is going to start making
Speaker 3: some of ITS ai chips and its supercomputers here in
Speaker 3: the good OLD us OF. A so company announced that
Speaker 3: it's building and testing, chips specifically what's called It's blackwell
Speaker 3: chips In, arizona and it plans to Manufacture IT'S ai.
Speaker 3: Supercomputers wait for right in our Great texas has The
Speaker 3: texas are up on you? Woo that's. Right nvidia says
Speaker 3: they are going to be building supercomputers In, texas one
Speaker 3: of which is going to be made by a company
Speaker 3: called Fox, con which is In. Houston there's another company
Speaker 3: In dalla's Called, restaant and apparently mass production both of
Speaker 3: these plants expected to ramp up in the next twelve
Speaker 3: to fifteen. Months hey, MAN.
Speaker 1: I like. IT i like.
Speaker 3: It hopefully the price is not going to go up
Speaker 3: the at the at the end of the day of
Speaker 3: the of the actual products that are. Made but that's
Speaker 3: more more taxes coming into our revenue. JOBS i like, it.
Speaker 3: Man In vidia has been benefited most directly from all
Speaker 3: THIS ai, stuff without a, doubt because they make these
Speaker 3: chips and they're they're doing so. WELL i don't have
Speaker 3: nvidious Dooc this is not meat bumping up. Anything But
Speaker 3: i'm just telling, you, man if this is what our
Speaker 3: government wanted of, producing, manufacturing building stuff in The UNITED, Us,
Speaker 3: okay maybe, slowly surely it's. HAPPENING i don't know WHEN
Speaker 3: i come, back IF i come back From, china over
Speaker 3: the next few, WEEKS i will be answering your, questions
Speaker 3: giving you my insights on what does this mean for
Speaker 3: so many products that are shipped and tariff to The United.
Speaker 3: States can things be built in The United states that
Speaker 3: are great Make america great? Again making products In america
Speaker 3: that are great or greater than. Form but it also
Speaker 3: comes for pricing. TOO i, mean look look at cars In,
Speaker 3: china look at electric vehicles In. China this is this
Speaker 3: goes back To biden right now and again this is
Speaker 3: Why i'm not. Political. Man i'm gonna go back to
Speaker 3: Then i'll talk about it other president. Too there are
Speaker 3: actually WHEN i go To shen's In. China based In
Speaker 3: shen's In, china there is a big car manufacturer that
Speaker 3: IS i think they're only sold In. China IT'S. Ev
Speaker 3: it's CALLED BYD byd look it. Up is a very
Speaker 3: Large CHINESE ev. Automaker they make some pretty darn good.
Speaker 3: Evs they sell these things there for equivalent of about
Speaker 3: fifteen thousand dollars. Yep so apparently other countries can build,
Speaker 3: things do it relatively, inexpensive still sell it and still
Speaker 3: make a. Profit, see companies like that wanted and they
Speaker 3: still want to ship things like that to THE. Us
Speaker 3: but whatever administration, is they did not want. That they
Speaker 3: think it is going to hurt the CURRENT us, automakers The,
Speaker 3: gms The, fords the. Whatever again above my pay, grade
Speaker 3: above my POLITICS i care to talk. About so they
Speaker 3: were going to tear if those things so much so
Speaker 3: that a fifteen thousand dollars car maybe forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Car anxious actually to see what type of vehicles are mostly.
Speaker 3: DRIVEN i went To South korea two years, ago visited
Speaker 3: The samsung, factory saw a lot Of South korean, cars,
Speaker 3: obviously saw a lot Of Kias, Hyundai, genesis did not
Speaker 3: see one. iPhone it was All. Samsung so again an
Speaker 3: analogy or just just this kind of metaphor eat your
Speaker 3: own dog food. People that's what we used to say
Speaker 3: WHEN i used to work With. Microsoft you make the,
Speaker 3: product you use the. Product Worldwide Traveler Michael, GARFIELD i
Speaker 3: don't know what ELSE i could. Do we got one
Speaker 3: more segment to go smart. Home if you could think
Speaker 3: of one product in your home that is the most,
Speaker 3: smartest or one if you have to get rid of
Speaker 3: everything except. One what's the smartest feature from your smart?
Speaker 3: HOME i will tell you WHAT i think it, is
Speaker 3: and when we come back in The High Tech, text
Speaker 3: final segment of this Week's Hi Tech text in your,
Speaker 3: Show Michael garfield to raise your. Hand if you've been
Speaker 3: listening for almost the entire two hour, show put your hand.
Speaker 3: Down you're, Driving BUT i know what you're doing this. Weekend,
Speaker 3: actually maybe you may be listening at, home maybe listening
Speaker 3: on The iHeartRadio. App you may be listening terrestrially on
Speaker 3: the WONDERFUL am stations In HOUSTON kprc nine to, Fifteen
Speaker 3: San antonio twelve, hundred W ai And Dallas What's Up
Speaker 3: Talk radio eleven. Ninety no matter how you're, LISTENING i
Speaker 3: do thank you for, participating, calling leaving, voicemails sending, me you,
Speaker 3: know direct, messages POPULATING i. Asked i'm GETTING i got
Speaker 3: a lot of my questions or suggestions. Answered AS i
Speaker 3: get ready later this weekend to, fly very very very,
Speaker 3: far far far, west all the way To, china going
Speaker 3: downtown To. Chinatown oh shut, up, man come, On i'm
Speaker 3: older than. That, No i'm going to shins In. China
Speaker 3: i'm doing a little research on a lot of tech
Speaker 3: companies that are based over, there products that they're, building terrif.
Speaker 3: FINDING i will be doing SOME tv segments for MY
Speaker 3: tv stations In houston And, austin and obviously reporting back
Speaker 3: to you when we get, back getting a lot of
Speaker 3: tips from, you my dear, listeners of what the pack
Speaker 3: on international travel VPNs from my computers and my. Phone,
Speaker 3: yes that's, RIGHT i did get a PHONE vpn Virtual private,
Speaker 3: network maybe the only way to actually Get communicado out Of.
Speaker 3: China but see if you could follow me on On
Speaker 3: instagram and all my social media accounts for some photos
Speaker 3: And i'm gonna keep them. Clean i'll go in my
Speaker 3: talk about EVERYTHING i do is. Clean H I g
Speaker 3: H T E c H t e X A n
Speaker 3: spells high Tech texan talk a lot ABOUT i Am
Speaker 3: no for a, Fact i'm going to see a number
Speaker 3: of smart home products that are manufactured In, CHINA a
Speaker 3: lot of, manufacturer a lot of all over the. World
Speaker 3: they make things like. That IF i asked this question
Speaker 3: in your, home you probably have a lot of smart home.
Speaker 3: Products IF i could say you could only have, one
Speaker 3: which one would you choose to? Keep NOW i want
Speaker 3: you to take in. Consideration does it help you in
Speaker 3: your everyday? Life does it save you? Money does it
Speaker 3: give you a sense of? Security what would you break
Speaker 3: it down? At, okay so smart home, products we've got
Speaker 3: everything from video door, Bells we've got everything from smart,
Speaker 3: thermostats we have got security, cams we HAVE i mean,
Speaker 3: YES i mean you can have the smart home, appliances
Speaker 3: your air, fryers a number of different. Things i'll ask
Speaker 3: you another. Question what was the very first smart product
Speaker 3: that you ever got in your? Home so it's reading
Speaker 3: an ARTICLE i. FORGOT i think we may have been
Speaker 3: all seen it or something like. That what's the one
Speaker 3: gadget that is the in the headline was what's the
Speaker 3: new superhero of the energy efficient? Home what is going
Speaker 3: to give you a very little? Downside what is going
Speaker 3: to give you some? Savings and the answer, is at
Speaker 3: least for, me it is a smart learning thermist. Debt
Speaker 3: IF i can remember the very first product THAT i,
Speaker 3: put not not even in the current Home i'm in right.
Speaker 3: Now but the other, one it was a smart Thermist.
Speaker 3: Stat because they're relatively easy to do. Yourself you go
Speaker 3: get a smart thermist. Stat AND i remember Remember nest
Speaker 3: now it's Called Google. Nest that was one of the first.
Speaker 3: Ones and there's a number of different. OTHERS i have
Speaker 3: one right, now not a. Commercial it's called ecob.
Speaker 1: AND i have.
Speaker 3: THREE i have three floors in my, house SO i
Speaker 3: have different. Ecobees but the point is the use. Correctly
Speaker 3: they censor your, temperature they automatically adjust when your home
Speaker 3: when you're not, home which saves money on YOUR, hvac
Speaker 3: on your electricity. Bill AND i say this it's because
Speaker 3: as we're based In, texas spring's barely. Here it's already getting.
Speaker 3: Toasty you know your rates are gonna go, up your
Speaker 3: no electricity bill is going to go. Up what do
Speaker 3: you do IF i had one smart home thing to choose.
Speaker 3: From luckily we can have more than. That we live it.
Speaker 3: Off For Ey, contray it's that. Thermostat and if you
Speaker 3: don't have a smart, thermostat why? Not why? Not c
Speaker 3: Net they did an energy survey last. Year seventy eight
Speaker 3: percent OF us adults are concerned about the rising home energy.
Speaker 3: Cost it's not We we don't have to worry a
Speaker 3: lot about heating bills here In, texas but the air
Speaker 3: conditioning Every, May, June, July, August, September, october up up.
Speaker 3: Up but they're learning. Thermostats they learn what you. Do
Speaker 3: this is before the TERM ai really was used in
Speaker 3: an every day. Vernacular they can sense is anybody, moving
Speaker 3: is anybody? Here, oh you're leaving every morning at eight
Speaker 3: thirty to go to. Work you don't come home to five.
Speaker 3: Thirty oh, okay let's just raise or low get raised the,
Speaker 3: temperature and right before you come home at four thirty five,
Speaker 3: o'clock we're gonna lower it. Down they learn some of
Speaker 3: these deals. Said all you need to do really is
Speaker 3: pop off your old. Fashion in many cases depends how
Speaker 3: old your thermostat. Is the wirings already. There you just
Speaker 3: pop off the old thermistat which they can be popped.
Speaker 3: Off read a few, directions watch a little YouTube, video
Speaker 3: and you pop on your new. Thermostat you download a free.
Speaker 3: App now you can monitor. It you could log on
Speaker 3: anywhere in the, world maybe not from out And i'll
Speaker 3: let you. Know you can log on and almost anywhere
Speaker 3: at the, world and then you actually can see how,
Speaker 3: cool how hot your house. Is you can, raise you
Speaker 3: can lower the. Thermostat if you're renting a, house you
Speaker 3: may need to ask permission to install. One BUT i
Speaker 3: think every single person can benefit from the savings and
Speaker 3: WITHOUT ai privacy. Issues AS i, Said, Ecobe, Google, Nest Honeywell, Home,
Speaker 3: amazon they're under three hundred. Dollars no reason you need
Speaker 3: to spend more than three hundred. Dollars but temperature control
Speaker 3: has evolved a. Lot SO i answered my. QUESTION i
Speaker 3: don't know about. You we can talk about this next.
Speaker 3: Week SHOULD i come back next? Week but that's my.
Speaker 3: Answer if you have to get one powered smart, home
Speaker 3: things start with the. Thermostat then you go to a video,
Speaker 3: doorbell then maybe you go to one of those smart.
Speaker 3: Speakers then you can get some. Cameras then you can
Speaker 3: just it goes on and. On but, home we're getting.
Speaker 3: SMARTER i was THE i was one of the first
Speaker 3: smart home devices. Ever back in the late. Seventies my
Speaker 3: dad would tell me to get up and go change
Speaker 3: the television. Show that's right before the remote. Control that
Speaker 3: was me so. Long i've been around, PEOPLE i am
Speaker 3: getting ready of the shut. Up i'm getting rid of
Speaker 3: the finished packing BECAUSE i am out of. Here all.
Speaker 3: Right we will hopefully report back do the show again next.
Speaker 3: Week Michael, garfield who's the, Name definitely follow, me you,
Speaker 3: KNOW i want to see some stuff that's going on
Speaker 3: IF i, can indeed report back From. China High Tech
Speaker 3: text and high t me CHT x and, Listen thank, You,
Speaker 3: callum thank you, will thank, You Brian, Erickson Mark sherman and,
Speaker 3: everybody And Paul, Lambert Eddie martini and everybody all over
Speaker 3: the iHeart state Of texas that has put me over
Speaker 3: the air and keeps me going here for twenty, three
Speaker 3: twenty four plus. Years my name Is. Garth this is
Speaker 3: The High Tech text AND i hopefully we'll see me next.
Speaker 3: Week right, now this show is over
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